Tim Roth: Yeah, I Did That Awful FIFA Movie for the Money

We’ve all done some regrettable things for money in our lives. In college, I once subjected my brain to multiple hours of electromagnetic pulses over several days for a science study just so I could blow money at our 24-hour Burger King. So when accomplished actor Tim Roth says he played FIFA blowhard (and former president) Sepp Blatter in a propaganda film for the cash, I don’t blame him. From Roth's Reddit AMA:

The film is awful (can’t say that because I haven’t seen it) I hated
doing it, it was the wrong film but for the right reasons. I had two
kids in college so I had to make a decision and it was probably poorly
judged, but once you make that decision you have to follow through.
It’s a hard road, being in something you don’t want to do, but I’m
glad I did it for my family.

Putting kids through college is maybe a slightly better reason to do something for money than Burger King. I don’t know, has Tim Roth ever tried chicken fries? Roth’s career is fortunately going a little bit better than that of the man he portrayed: Blatter was banned from soccer for eight years today, while Roth has a starring role in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.

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